Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Mission: Impossible III as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary… Despite the box-office success of Mission: Impossible 2, the film was a significant departure from Bruce Geller’s original espionage television series as well as Brian De Palma’s twisty-turny 1996 suspense thriller which launched the big screen franchise. However, […]
Ranking the Mission: Impossible Franchise
With Dead Reckoning Part One coming very soon, we look back at the Mission: Impossible Franchise so far to give you our ranking from worst to best… Tom Cruise is about to kick off his latest cinema salvation exercise and stunt show, continuing his awesomely successful franchise. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is […]
Cruise Control: The Mission Impossible Franchise at 25
Coming up to 25 years after the release of Mission: Impossible, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the franchise that is still going strong… In the mid 9’s, modern adaptations of old TV shows tended to be a mixed bag. More often than not, the update didn’t match the popularity of the source. Whether it was […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, Alex Baldwin, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, and Wes Bentley. SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. So […]
Tom Cruise – Unstoppable
Helen Murdoch on Tom Cruise and his continued success… With the sixth instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise being released at the end of July, it got me thinking about the enigma of Tom Cruise and why regardless of how crazy he seems in real life, I always go and watch his films. My love […]
Mission: Impossible series hitting 4K Ultra HD this June
Ahead of this summer’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Paramount has announced that the first five instalments of the Tom Cruise-headlined blockbuster spy series – Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible III, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation are set to arrive on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray next month; check out the […]
Ranking the Mission: Impossible franchise
Simon Columb ranks the Mission: Impossible franchise… Where were you in 1996? It’s weird to imagine Katie Holmes watched Mission Impossible in 1996 like all of us. Young, impressionable and excited by the new action film with Cruise at the centre of it. Then, ten years later, she’s married to him and giving birth (without […]
